18 imported 43,500 pounds. Undoubtedly significant Personal Touch ^ N actress (and we wouldn't tel] you .n.. her name for the world) was a guest at a luncheon celebrating the launching of a ship. She didn't know any of the other guests, and it carne as a slight blow to her pride that none of the guests seemed to know her, either. Presen tly, though, she was greeted by the friendly, familiar sight of a smal] boy approaching her, holding out a book and a pen. Would she sign the book, please? She would. She not only signed it, but added "To a little gentleman." The little gentleman thereupon pro- ceeded to present his book to every- one in sight, obviously without discrim- ination, and to one of the visitors he explained that he was a ship's page with the shipbuilding company's guest book. Great a1zd Little O UR 1\;1r. Stanley, an energetic man with practIcally no sense of pro- portion, has been whiling away the hours before the collapse of the Ameri- can way of life by an investigation of how Great Jones Street and Little West Twelfth Street acquired the epithets "Great" and "Little." We print his findings for the benefit of other escap- ists. Both these streets are downtown, as you probably know-Great .Jones Street constituting a link between East Third Street and West Third Street between the Bowery and Broadway, and Little West Twelfth Street consti- tutirtg what would be the western tip of West Twelfth Street proper if the latter didn't go galumphing off in a south- westerly direction after crossing Green- wich A venue. Now, as for Great Jones Street, it is, Stanley discovered, named in honor of one Samuel Jones, who ced'ed the land for the street to the city. J ones flour- ished in the late seventeen-hundreds, and was an attorney of some note. Chancellor Kent, who was the first N ew York judge to disappear, once called Jones "unequalled in his knowl- edge of the doctrine of real property." If you look up this matter in the Public Library files, you'll get the information, totally inaccurate, that Chief Justice ?vJ GAnONEQ ((T he artist lives in IJort J ervis, New }T ark, if that helps any." OCTOßER 12, 194-0 David Jones is the Jones in question. Stanley's dope comes from the New York Historical Museum. From the Greenwich Village Historical Society's Mrs. Clivette he got the explanation of the "Great." There already was a Jones Street on Manhattan in 1806, when Great Jones Street was named- the same one that's still here, run- ning between \Vest Fourth Street and Bleecker. The street named for Sam- ue] Jones was three times as long and twice as wide, so it was named Great Jones. After thanking Mrs. Clivette, Stanley went down for a look at Great J ones Street, which he reports as uni- formly disappointing. Just a lot of real property, like the offices of the Red Ball Lift Van Company, the Ace Venetian Blind Company, and so on. Little West Twelfth Street, which starts down by the Cunard piers, con- stitutes the northern boundary of the Gansevoort Farmers' Market, and is lined with wholesale meat and produce firms. At one of these places, Midden- dorf & Rohrs, Stanley was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Peter Rohrs, who knew all about the name of his street. Had it from his, father , who was an amateur historian. Little \Vest Twelfth was cut through at the time the Ganse- voort Market was completed, in 1882. The city fathers were fooling about with a map and ruler, and discovered that the new street was exactly on the line \Vest Twelfth would have taken if it hadn't sheered off southwest at Green- wich. So... o rcllid-RU1Z1Zi1Zg A FRIEND of ours who grows orchids (although he is not an amateur criminologist) was pleasantly surprised when a girl he knows pre- sented him with a flourishing orchid plant from Bermuda. "How in the world did you ever get it past the customs inspectors?" he asked. "Oh, that was easy," she said. "I just fastened it on my hat." COC01ZUt Ca1zdy a1zd Doom O NE of the moments most typical of our civilization, we would say, is 7 :45 P.M., E.S.T., of a Sunday, when \\Tythe \Villiams, the man who prophe- sied the outbreak of the war and the fall of France, goes on the air under the com- mercial sponsorship of Mounds-"that delightful combination of tree-ripened coconut and rich, brown chocolate," as the announcer says. "i\.h, how good it